成唯識論述記 7.304

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述曰：此第二義。欲界先修，色界除受果處，餘下一切地，或一切處，皆能重引現前。《瑜伽》五十六說：先於此起者，先起此定也；後於色界者，後起此定也。於第四靜慮當受彼果者，出受果處也。即後於色界受，二師引別。前師屬果，後師屬定，故二諍也。然既通後報，即色界重現前為勝。前師云：欲界今生退，後生更得，不退前定，即名後報，何勞生彼？故二力齊。後起家不於彼天處者，以至究竟故，第四定中，三處為起、不起。今此言除無想天，不遮餘處，故得起也。雖知離染諸地皆然。但由熏修，生上諸處，別別不同，故下三處亦得此定。又解，下處不得離染齊故，若起下染，定不生第四禪，若離下染，即得彼定。故下天處，無得定義，以退此定，必起下染。不爾，如何說名為退？

The Commentary states: This is the second position. Having first cultivated it in the kāmadhātu, in the rūpadhātu, except for the place where the fruit is experienced, in all the other lower grounds or all other places, it can be re-induced to manifest. Yogācārabhūmi fascicle 56 states: 'first generated here' means first generating this concentration; 'later in the rūpadhātu' means later generating this concentration; 'one will experience that fruit in the fourth dhyāna' specifies the place where the fruit is experienced. Thus, regarding 'later experienced in the rūpadhātu', the two masters quote it differently: the former master applies it to the fruit, whereas the latter master applies it to the concentration; hence the two dispute. However, since it extends to retribution in later [lives], it is superior that it manifests again in the rūpadhātu. The former master says: Having retrogressed in the present life in the kāmadhātu, regaining it in a subsequent life without retrogressing from the prior concentration is indeed called retribution in a later [life], so why bother being born there? Therefore, the strengths of both positions are equal. The school holding that it is generated later [states that] it is not in that heavenly place because it has reached culmination; in the fourth dhyāna, there are three places where it may or may not be generated. Now, this text says 'except for the asaṃjñi-sattva heaven', not precluding other places, and so it can be generated. Although one knows that abandoning defilement is the same for all grounds, simply due to perfuming and cultivation one is born into the various higher places distinctly and differently; hence in the lower three places one also attains this concentration. Another explanation: In the lower places, one cannot [generate it], because abandoning defilement is identical: if one generates lower defilement, one definitely will not be born into the fourth dhyāna; if one is free from lower defilement, one attains that concentration. Therefore, in the lower heavenly places there is no possibility of attaining the concentration, because when one retrogresses from this concentration, one inevitably generates lower defilement. Otherwise, how could it be called 'retrogression'?